The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1854, Page 3

INTERESTING FROM MEXICO. Our Vera Cruz Correspondence. Vera Onvz, Dec. 21, 1853. Herowal Vera Cruz—Madame Calderon—Waddy Thompson—Turkey Buzzards, §c.— Postmaster General and Mexican BMails—Fillrbusters— Santa Anna—Mezican Newspapers—English Lordings—Lady Suffolk, Black Bob §c. Tf your columns are not over replete with records of the doings at Washington, intelligence from the gorgeous Bast, with episodes of men, manners and things generally, &c., perhaps space may be foand for an ocegsional jotting down from this not wholly ‘Uainteresting part of the world. Ifso, » wandering ,northern barbarian, now temporising at the eity of the True Cross, salutes you moet profoundly, and proceeds to sey unto you things possibly hitherto ‘Dnsaidin prose or rhyme. Vers Cruz, like most other places, presents its Points of interest. TheZchiefest here, however, is the Tomantic and, rather mournful history which die tinguishes this off besleged, \battered and captured town. Yet itis not solely in her warlike fame and aspect that the Heroic City of the True Croas, eroica Vera Cruz—the official eppellation,) com- bcm deer to notice. Sadly slandered as the town and environs have been by travelers, from Madame .Calderon down to Waddy Thompson, ® distasteful as our army found it after revelling in the Capuan Halls of Mexico, (I would have said Halls of Montezuma, but that has been said a little too \ pften,) your correspondent is agreeably surprised at finding itto be a perfectly clean, and remarkably Well built little city. And, then, as,to the environs, it istrue there are a few send hills, but it isnot all sand hills. And bave not we old Orizaba,the monarch of Mexican mountains, on one hand, and the illimit- able Amethystine ocean on theother? The fair Calderon was particularly shocked at the appearance of the gopilotes, (Turkey bussards,) prowling about the streets, as pigeons do in other countries. Well, the zopilote is not a turtle dove, it must be admitted, but he iscertainly as agreable'an object of contempla” tion as the porkers that once prospected about the btreets of New York, Cincinnati and other well overned (Heaven save the mark!) cities, A oa zopilotes would improve the eondition of the streets in polished, metropolitan Getham. It is uot three months since I observed a dead dog lying for three days in the gutter in front of a Broadway hotel. Fact! Now, that couldn’t have been the case here. The zepilotes would bave snapped up and torn piecemeal the poor canine before the breat! could have been well out of his Lith Bat I didn’t iy down to write of New York. Vera Crug is my eme. , For the pregent, however, I can have but little to +Say touching local matters, and will defer al! ross until my next. Our regular steam pack for New Orleans early in the mornir only time to treat of important ma la- mercial interests, Mexican politics, & By last arrival from New Orleans ¥ received the President’s momage, and 3) nopti ports from one or two of the heads of departme \s Washing- ton. The message is very generally approved of by the Americans resiaing or sojourning here. But, on the other hand, the report ot the Postmaster-General has given great dissatisfaction, and thore is even some talk of an indignation meeting. In fact, nothing but a fear of needlessly alarming the authori- ties—who would ane regard it as & pronuncia- mento—bas suppressed You will observe that Judge Campbell, (the Post- Master Ceneral, Bp oy i to discontinue the mail service Letween Vera Cruz and New Orleans, be- cause, forsooth, there is’as yet a considerable dispro- portion between the Cs sg paid and amount . of postages collected. Now, first establishing the hypothesis, or rather the axiom, that the Post Oflice is not a legitimate source of revenue, and, farther, that mail routes which yield profit to the depart- ment should be made to sustain those that do not, I think good cause can be shown for the continuance of the route in question. The extent and magnitude of the trade of the United States with Mexico is, perhaps, not generally known. It amounts to millions annually—of which New Orleans has a full half—importing near $2,000,000 in silver, with mahogany, tobacco, dye- stofis, drugs, &c., to pay for Westerm and South- ern products, chiefly eotton. The SORrea yong in connection with such a trade must be of propor- tionate importance. Well, this trade, or the greater part of it, is of recent growth, having been created and built up chiefly by the establishment of a line of steamships, the owners of these ships having been enabled to devote them to the service by receiving from the United States government a moderate sum for transporting the mails between the two points. With this increase of imports, of course the United Btates treasury has received an accession of revenue ‘in the shape of duties. Now, suppress this mail, and the steam line falls through, the carrying trade goes back to the wretched little old Mexican schoon- ers that formerly had what there was of it, and it willshortly relapse iato the languishing condition in which it had been for so many years. The amount of duties collected at New Orleans will be diminish- ed pari passu with the decadence of this particular traftic, and the general interests of the Mississippi valley will suffer to a certain extent. Nor is it New Orleans alone that is interested. New York, the emporium of commerce, will fcel this retrogradation very sensibly, ao far, at least, as con- venience goes. ‘That city millions invested in this count in mines and otherwise, and having but a monthly packet—salling vessels at that—finds it a great advantage to be able to communicate with this country tri-monthly by the way of New Orleans. Nor must we torget the very respectable mail that leaves upen the arrival of every steamer here by Rameey’s ress for San Franc’ by the way of Avapnlcds The United States government, too, in view of our very interesting relations with Mexi- co, must be interested particularly in the speedy, frequent, and certain transmission of despatches to and from the city of Mexico. ai There are other matters connected with this sub- ject of which we must not lose sight. England hasa trade of $25,000,000 with Mexico, yet she has but one monthly steamer to Southampton. Yet she has @ paid mail agent here, (the Consul, of courze,) and sustains a courier between this place and the city of | Mexico at the rate of $6,000 per aanum. Now, anable Postmaster General could, methinks, manage to get | the great English mail by undertaking to carry it from Vera Cruz to Liverpool by the way of New Orleans, New York, and the Collins lize. John Sull has now but one mail a month, and we can beat dates of | that one into London under the present arrange- | ment. Of course, Johnny would bite at an oppor- Pie os getting three mails for the same morey for which he now has the advant of but one. True police Tequires, not only that the New Qrieansand Vera Cruz route should be fostered Db: a wise and paternal administration of the Post Of- fice Department, but that we should have a postal eonvention with Mexieo by which certain abuses might be corrected. It is not exactly clear to me by » whatright the veep ae os ret Dance mons postage on letters brought to tl lat for de- livery in American mail stesmahi gg She also mskes the same,charge on letters d here to go by hehe’ sbips—thus inigeting col ce to double ocean postage, the same letters at both ends of the route, vidios Strange aslt may appear, the great fillibuster in- | vasion of Sanora is yet a pretty tolerably “mixed up” sort of an affair. We cannot get hold of either the head or tail of the business from the public journals of this country, filled as they are with the wonderful operatious of General this and General that against “the pirates.”’ It seems, however, that ee ee eee and, ane hated anything in cular, went away again, anc is sbvct the sum of the whole business, at least for the present. Our oid friend Santa Anna—the Napoleon of the South—who is now getting old and fat, iscoming it retty strong just now. In the last Siglo Diez y Buen 1 observe a decree, wherein he has himeelf announced by the title of “ Altesa Seremissima’— Moet Serene Highness—a prett title, surely, for a democratic republican President. Day before yea- terday was the day set aside for the inauguration of the most noble Order of Our Lady of Guadalupe, of which old Santy is the Grand Master. We have no intelligence as to how the ceremony came off, the mail not being due untiltomorrow. But some of the Knowing ones here feel assured that some of the dis- eontented must have seized the occasion to kick up arow. Well, we'll see the end, of which these pom- posities are but the beginning. ‘There is nothing further heard just now of General Gadeden’s great treaty with the Mexican govern: ment for the purchase ot Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, &e. What are we to do with old Jemmy Gui Ther oi h a dearth of intelligence in the pa: ere is such a deat pers here, that it is useless to look into them for news, Journalism is in a sad condition in this country. | And then the monstrous price asked for their miser- able, dirty-looking little papers. The wretched 8x10 published here eoste the moderate sum of | thirty dollars per annum. Now, what ean be ex- cted of such a country, or people rather. Iam \d desperate efforts are being made to exolade the New York Hanatp from this enlightened republic. By the last arrival from New Orleans came a tatch of English lordlings, who are doing the West (nm Ah, demme ! maned American alaver, ‘Lady Suffolk,” ie rotting in the harbor here, and will, doubtless, to pieces at her moorings for all the use this peop! it will put her to. ‘OFT Spanish manot-war Alcedo, ts lying ot Sect ficios, lookirg caine fAllibusters iggy sof be is | the sare time they woukt have been victorious, as they General Quitman BINGO. Our Yucatan Correspondence, ‘Manuva, Dec. 1, 1853. Dreadful Ravages bf Cholera—Travel of tha Plague and In- surrectioniste—The Dead in Other Cities— Effect of the Bpi demic upon Ke Indian War—Facis regarding the Late Revolutionmls Plots and Counterpls— Kidnapping Jn- dians for Sale in Cuba—The Oraft and Flags engaged in de Trade—Sania Anna’s Reward of Rebela—Engagement between the Government Troops and Insurrectionisis—The , Bead, Wounded, and Executed-— Domestic Incidenia. ‘The besom of destruction has been, and is still, sweep- ing over this peninsula of Yucatan. The ravages of the cholera have been most fatal. It is utterly impossible to ascertain correctly the number of victims taken off by that fell Cestroyer. It first commenced at the south and eastern part of the peninsuls, near Honduras, and tra velled on westward by regular stages, nearly depopulating many towns and villages in the interior. About the 28th of September it made its appearance at Merida, the capi- tal, aceompanied by an insurrectionary party of soldiers, abeut eighteen hundred in number. From this time the epidemic inereased hourly, until at one time one hunired ‘and seventy-five daily deaths were registered, and many more were not ascertained, ‘The population of this beautifal city is, or was, about thirty-five thousand, and up to this time two thousand five hundred, per register, have died by the cholera. It is now apparently gorged with victims out of this com- maunity, and has proceeded on its western travel; and by letters just received from Oampeachy, about seventy-five miles west from this, it appears tho iraveller has arrived and began his work of death. By these letters it appears that the epidemic is, if possible, more deadly than here- tofore, taking ite vietims off in two or three hours, and in fome cases almost instantly. It is reported that sixty have been taken off in one day, and ithad but justentered the city. No doubt but the ports and cities more to th® west are to be called on for their quota, and Laguna and Tabasco are to suffer. May they be spared is a heart wish, Bisal, a small and miserable thirty six miles from Merida and ita cea) t, oontalsing eight or nine hun- dred half civilized Staves alsoa sufferer, lon, cver two hundred by the cholera. 18 id ra and outcast Indians of the interior, with w! co sparta have been at war since 1847, have suffered greater havoc, if possible, by the cholera than their enemies. Its thought by many that one good may arise from the great evil— namely, that if the whites will only so will it, hostilities will cease, and this crue] and unjust war be brought toan end; but the subdued and degraded Indian must bomble himself more, still more, to his conqueror and taskmaster. The Lord pity their abject and wretched condition, and soften the hearts of the whites. This is ovly a brief account of what has been experi- enced with st tothe cholera. Some families he become altogether extinct—not even an heir le't to the property; in other families only one taken off, and all the others escaping; but scarcely a single house or family going altogether free—the rich and the poor suffering alike, The road from Merida to Sisal passes threugh two vil- lnges, both now nearly depopulated. The mail coach Tuns up and down alternate nights, and changes beast at each of these villages, The other night, on my way dot to Sisal, 1 was much struck by the great change at the stage houss of these places, The house was for- syern, grocery, stags offic, post office, &s., with ne in the family, and also ® place of resort to ra gad listeners. But now when we dri the only person to be seen was a solitary woman, at the door on a low stool, her and not even raising it up when the ata; eight or ten feet of her. Grief had taken a mighty hold her, she being the only ono left of the nine, Her bh band, children, domestics, al) pad ce to the Campo Santo. So much reepecting this awful scourge. With respect to the mighty revolution which is now a} arently put down I will state a few particulars, as pe Fee you may make some use of them. Gea. Barbs formerly Governor of Yucatan, being voted in by t of the: people, of which situation he made the r bis own good ani that of his partisans, keeping the government treasury chest always emp! iz Some time back the principal persons hereabouts, deeming it j necessary for the public weal, in e very quietand ry way deposed his honor, appointed & Governor pro tem,, and forwarded to Mexico the facts of the case— the whys and wherefores—and from Mexico was dis- patched by Santa Anns General La Vega, to rule over ‘Yucatan as civil and military chief; and since his assam- ing the reins of government he has acted very mildly anc judiciously, But peace, quietness, and inl order sre not the characteristics of the mass of avy of the pee- ple, or of the Mexican race. Wars, revolutions, and pro- Hermite are apparently spontaneous productions ere away. ‘The political friends of Barbacheno and Zatene blended themselves into one party, swearing vengeance against the goverament party then is powee under La Vega and Santa Anna. Thea cowmenced s course of Cee | and intrigue, which abortly extended to various parts of the State, which by what has recently come to light, was judi- cious and well planned. Mosey was forthcoming, and agents mixed themselves with the troops in the ean pa! sgainst the Indians; and as the troops were miserably paid and fed, they were tasily bought, and ready to aa sist when they were ca)led on to do so. The mover of this intended revolution were ons more ex'ensire than any that we have yet experienced in Merida, and many cfficers and men of’note and character in ail the eastern portion of the peninsula, and in Merida, had ewbarked in it, and all things went on to the satisfaction of the leaders; and the very when the outbreak was to be, then simultanceus rising was to come off; the middle of October; but secretly and privately as this formidable plot was deemed by its leaders and inetiga- tors to be, still Gem. La Vega had some faint knowleage that something was brewing of a revolutionary nature, and was on the watch, taking steps againat it; but owing toan unlooke¢ for transaction—which so often forestalla the devices and intents of men—the outbreak was prema- ture, and sadly deranged the plans of La Vega, as wellas those of the leaders of the revolt. La Vega was expecting & reinforcement of government troops from Vera Oras (who have wep ee at Merida, i.¢. Nov.22.) The leaders, on the of band, had all their arrangements Knocked into pl. This sald cause I wish particularly to brizg to your notice, for it should be published far and near, from Dan to Beersheba—slavery, that is, the kid- napping of the poor Indians here in Yucatan, and sbip- ping them off to Cuba, and sold to work on the plantations of that famous isle. Since the middle of ’47 an unnatural and disgracefal war has existed on this fertile peninsula between the whites and the native Indians, and has been carried on almost as & war of extermination, the Indians practising those inbuman arts upen their prisoners that were prac- tised by Indians in the days that your ancient Puri- tans landed away down East and the Spaniards landed in these regio The whites in this war are, if possible, more blocdy and cruel than the ignorant snd uncivilized Indians. It is trae they do not put all their prisoners to the sword, but they reap a harvest by selling them oaca siorally. The fact is, that within the last four years hun. dreds and hundreds of the Ind havé been sent to Cabs, and placed,in an endless servitude, or until death releases them. They ere procured on this peninsula io various , Bot only by being teken iu battle, but many not engaged im strife are kidnapped, and various waye are devised to get them on board some craft on the and they soon find themselves in Cuba. The Kog- lish fing bas been uredin this business on this coast; | emall craft from ‘eins age he, have been used in this sort of business by reckless, lawless men, some of whom ‘authorities at Hondaras have taken, aad made examples of them by If 1 em not misinformed, in the ain gang at Balize are some of these men, and 4 men, I am pleased to say, are not Americans. tof business has become so frequent, public ard notorious, that bis angust honor, Santa Anna, of Mexieo, has isened « pronunciamento forbidding and denouncing | the inhuman traffic, and bas also taken step; to free from bondage thoee who are in Cuba. Genera! La Vega also moved in the matter, and in or- der to stop it despatched from Merida commissioners to the eastern extreme of this peninsula, then and there to gate the past conduct of certain perrens reported been engaged in the operation of selling for the Coban market. On the arrivel of the commissione:s they commenced with an individual of high standing, and they soon were convinced of his guilt, and he was orde.ed to proceed (in custody) to Merida for further examination. This he re- fused to do point blank, and when measures were taxen by lice to remove him by force he resisted, and did with the officers, they calling for assistance to en, force the laws, and he also calling on his partisans for aid, aud very roon was got up a very pretty row, and the row became & bloody Sent. The whole town was io an upicar, and he, being one of the chiefs ia the intended revolution, openly declared against the government ; snd he was immediately supported by his party, who arme! themselves ard took ocmma d the town. The com. missioners hed by this time fled to save their lives, and eventually arrived at Meri but the ba'l was now ution, (s month too soun, by the bye allt adjoining towns and villages declared for the revolt, and they tool ep their march for the capital, (Merida,) be ing jolced by the soldiers who had Been purel by the ‘almighty dollar. From this time the uprising was | general, as soon as it wae know te the pariy, and an on | ward rush was made for Merida, to reach which waa some days’ march; and in the interim the commissioners bad reached the eapital in # very quiet way and made kvown to Gen. La Vega how matters and things was go- | ingon, &¢ That might, in a very quiet way Geo. Bar | becheno and Col Zatene, both then in their dwellings at | Merida, 9x4 aleo ignorant of the outbreak, were made prisoners of, and, accompanied by a troop of city guard, they were sent down to Sisal and put on board a govern | ment veese), which directly got under way and prooeeded to Vera Cruz, where they were pat as prisoaers in th mous Castle of San Juan de Ulioa; and the general and public supposition was, that as thry were the prometers and the very heads of this most formidable revolution. that they would both be shot without loss of time. But truly some men are born for no other luck than good Tuck, for at this time these two gentlemen are at ico under office with Santa Anos, ope as collector io the army, and the « ther as counsellor to the great dictator. It was on the 1ith September, at Tistmin, that the ro. | volution broke out, and to do things secundum aroma mighty pronunciama to was ak The insurgents were seconced by the towns Valacolfd, Zizzamel, Motal, and all the villages to the east of Merida; and by forced | marches, (the distance is 120 miles,) theyjarrived aud Jaid siege to the captial on the 27th, with about 3,000 well armed and desperate men, under commatd of Col Manuel | Cepeda Perara, nephew of the well known Col Perasa, who was in the Texas revolution snd afterwards at the pronunciamento at Tampico, &c. The avaiable military force that Gen. La Vega hid to defer d the town, includ- ing the volunteers of the city, numbered about seven hundred men; and \° @red in the oftadel and four hundred in severe ht Sarre ol street ene the grand awaititg the enemy, who eveatually attacked themon mornizg of the 2th, at Qo'elock, ‘The insurgents tacked on the east and north of the were repulsed 27 ' Sel the atect ‘of two brass fle d pees s whiel rw upon them and did much execution. The was dev porate, but in an impro- per manner, for bad they attacned four angles at |Fions astothe rafetyef American interests in Acapulco, would have taken the arliliery in the rear, and made them- selves masters: “ae loud re art iia load articles; and they were without « an ie vege was well of in this respect. ‘The leader of the fosurgents wes very sanguine in his expectations, aad was expecting te be joined by persons from the city. Oo the night of this day three hundred men were on the tops jot hous-s, {they ere fiat.) around Piaga, and the remainder of the troops, with the field 5 Of Ostober, tbe government party wan, aa it werd, be of , the government party was, as - sloged and opt withia the cltacel, and's fow streets ad- jolning and the grand Pasa. The insurgenta were masters of all the rest of the city, Generally, near the suburbs, and between these two parties, was a sort of neutral or debateable ground, where daily skirmishes came off, and where some courageous feats were performed, and, also, if you can #0 think, some Gil Blas scenes were wit- At this time the cholera bad a going beth ‘among the insurgents and also Lat inhabitante, toa great extent, ‘and horror snd consternation pri and on the debateable ground were daily and many were killed on both sides; but the dead had to re- main as they October, there arrived a government [Soe not manent over,) under command of g's Rosado, from Peto. These troops, seven hundred, attacked the insurgents rather Keeper in their le from the fix, and he his heels and fled. Three of risoners, vis. :—Colonels Ontiberos and Villamil, and ptain Gro, and all three were publiel shot the next | killed and w)unded of insurgents is three hundred odd. Of afew days after, being betrayed by a supposed friend, and was publicly shot. He was taieey tne years of age, and of gentlewanly deportment. marched to tl cross of execution with all the resignation of s Christian and the ooolaces of an undaunted soldier. Colone] Manuel Cerseda Perara bas eluded the vigilance of those who are seeking his blood. There is money bid on bis head by the government: but treachery may yet be his bane, as that article is mighty abundant even here as well as at other parts, and money plays the devil with = kind of things waikings on two legs, and classed as 10. Now for one little incident ,and I drop my pen. truly beautiful city there is not to be found a Mah resident, and only one American resident, i physician of very extensive practice. Dr. Tappan has mariied a lady of this country, and keeps house, all nice and comfortable, and his house is within the debateable istrict. He had an American dag made and stuck up on a rtaff to define himself. It waa torn down and taken away, upon which he, at great risk, sought the chiefs, and stated who and what he was, and also complained of th of the flag. They exp! displeasure at the questing bim to go hom put up another, aod he, and bis flsg and family, should be respected ‘This he accordingly cid, ard all due respect was manifested, and his house became a refuge for the ladies, he having at the least forty fine lookigg ladies to guard, &o.; but the cholera paid them a visit, taxing away asingle indi- yidusl, viz: Mr. Tappan’s brother, and then leaving the welling, and also leaving health behind, 8, A. W. * Our Acapulco Correspondence. ACAPULCO, Mexico, Nov. 24, 1853, Case of Dr. Billings and the Mexi:an Government—Reported Outrages upon Americans—Ancther Version of the Story— Necessities of Travellers to the Port of Acapulco— Want of U.S. War Ships. My attention has been direeted tothe article annexed, ‘as it contains a heteregeneous mixture which, were they facts, would indeed require the presence ef a man-o!-war to enliven our evenings with balls and music. This article, or extract, res¢s as follows :— [From the San Francisco Times and Transoript, Steamer Paor Messrs. Enirons—We lett San Fran October with a tremendous load of passengers, cosl and stores enough to last to San Juan, but found aftor gesting out the ip was unable to make her usual timo, and water gottin short, wore obliged to putin at Acapulco, where wo arrive on the morning of the 10th, To the surprivs of every one the Ramsey express measom- aor had arrived there two days before us, with New Orleans ate he Ist inst., making the trip by’ means ofrelays of ty ten miles in short of seven days from Now Or- hie is whatmight be termed “a powerfal effort,” a 8 rewarded by a sight of the John L. Stepher sing up without sopping. Yvu will, perhaps, cet this mews by the arrival of the next mail steamer, sovon or eight days after yeu receive this Letior. I find the feeling of avimésity againat everything Amori- can has incteared in Acapulco to an alarming dogree since Twas there Isst, and they havo now a very fair prospect of scoomplishing their wishes, by driving everything Amotionn from the harbcr, oven the mail steamers, should not ® man- of-war arrive soon to protect our interests ‘The arrogance and insolence of the government and off, cinis extends, not only to Americans nation, or Ameri- oan companies, but ito individu ein point. Dr. Billings, aman well known by seamen as health ¢ joer of the Port for the past four and s half years, was cited before the authori ing language in his store not deemed by them sufficiently respectful toward the government of Santa Auna, with a notice to prooure bail of $20,000, This was con- i Dr. a6 rather ominous, so he took French by. th on the steamer Panama, at4P. M. of the 10th inst. what ho could not carry away was publicly confis- the use of the government, ‘There are now confined in the castle 850 persons, as I was informed by Dr. Billings, many among them Americans, having remained there from fourteen months down Wi ‘The army has been increased from two hundred to over one fRoutend regulars. Thote things taken other do nos look well for us, especially when we can in the harbor to protect us. I ask you can these things al ways Inst? Will Americans always tamsly submiy to be trampled upon, of only until they can have the power to “right such wronge!”’ T. I deem it important to the public to state that the Time: and Transcript’s correspondent labors under some meatal apprehensions more horrible and more to be dreaded than an attack of calentura—that some swarthy looking Mexicans were standing over his couch, with “stiletto” uplifted, ready to launch his “ fra{l bark "’ into the mys- tic depths of ‘he ‘river Styx.” In this overpowering climate, wher a person’s system becomes nerveless, it is absolutely necessary to minister a powerful dose of mor- phene. In the absence of that valuable drug, Ishall pre scribe for the correspondent a dose of facts, which, I hope, may have the desire effect of quieting his apprehen- have no man-of war whenhe ia assured that ‘ matters and things” are as un- d an the ‘DeadSea.” Not being ‘posted ” in the jence of surgery,”’ I shall, nevertheless, venture « dis- section of his communication. Dr. E. 8. Billings was not forced to take ‘' French leave ”’ of us because he had been sued and required to farr ish $20,000 bail for using language of a disrespectful character towards this government. If such usage were treason by the laws of our country we have man citizens among us who ought to be seot home for trial Nor was his property, which consisted of a one-half in terest in a ‘ boteca,’”’ copfigcated snd sold at public auc tion. It was quietly and peaeeably left by him in charge of @ merchant of thi lace to be sold; which has been dor nd at private to the medical officer who re Dr. B. from bi ting position? of * nealih of- .”’ which eflice he held, as sworn to by him, for “three months,’ instead of * four and a half years, amerted. As regards the Doctor being forced to'take ~*French leave”? of ur, it appears to be perfectly inex- Heable, jaasmuch as he was ful ware that the frigate t. Lawrence was daily expecied, and was only a short di tavee from this port. The next ‘elusive i the corres sondent is seized ‘with is the horror of the Mexioan army (bah!) being {a- creared at this formidable poiat frem two hundred toe one thousand strong. The garrixon, which is the osstle of San Diego, and is used ae» prison, consists, and has for a very long time past, of less than one company of ‘‘greas ers,’’ say forty men, all told. As for the Americans being prisoners and confined without trial, ater making a thorough examination Lam unable to discover » single individ al who even makes pretension to American pro- tect on. Ak to “driving away everything Amerisan, even the mail steamers from the barbor,’’ :here is nothing here to drive, except the piles, which are being driven as fast an possible, in order to accommocate the s'eamers with » harf; and as the tonnage d m the ooal imported for ¥ the Pacifie Mail Compaoy’a steamers consumption hes deem redused from $i 50 to 60 ceots per ton, I canaot conceive what more they at preseat want. The appeal mace an to the requtrements of the presence ofa» mon-of-war’ is somewhat amaring just at tais pre- sent tine, Were the question asked, what 1 there for « vessel of war to do? Iw. uld be sta loss for areply Are they only required to do as they have done on former vistie?—to give ‘balls’? and murical soirees, to the smu ment of the native d delight of the Americans, at which it would be difficult to discriminate which of the parties enjoyed themselves mom! What ts really a1 actually wanted on this coast 1: at lea: to steamers of war '’ to be kept sonstastly em olored visiting ports, mere particularly those of thia oountry, and, by their frequent sppearance, prevent abuses and outrages, and give the Mexiean government to uniers and that the United States navy are on the constant ui vive to protect American interests. And, finally, the soul atirring ap peal, Will Americans always tamely submit to be tram. pled [the expremion is m disgrace to the couatry | upom or only util they can have the power to right such wrengs?”’ In reply to this, I can werely atate that the United S'ates permite no’ nation to trample upoa the righta of her eftiseon; and however restringent the laws and regulations of tnis pert may be, and repugaaat '0 the patriotic feelings of my countrymen which they are Lbave sufficient confidence in the presevt democratic ad ministration to know that where the ‘‘nmaratime laws of nations’ are not violated, not only in this, bat in all countries where ths United Staten encourage foreign in tercourse, will An erisan interests be protected, and, whea infringed apo, mediate reparation demanded, shall merely add—the man dors not exiat take mere pride than myself on f Ms emg al emblem, the ‘stars and atripes,”’ m: over this, @ port unsurpassed for safety regret being forced to ac mit that the offi very lit le if go Rng eid Americans or American in- teresta, yet, wi en sp) is to be made through the prees, correapondente should bear in mind VERITAS, Sraristios or Cappo Panien, La.—The Shreve- t Southwestern, of the 2th ult. pablishes the follow- 1% statistics of Caddo parish, furnished by the Assessor of the parish :— The total population ts 9,499 Voter O44 Slave: 6,600 Sehool subjecti ar “ 1,206 Acres of unsultivated land in the pariah 192,960 Acres cultivated in cotton 30,070 Acres cultivated in corn 18,287 Nan ber of bales of cotton made in 1853. 15,220 Nanber of bushels of corn raised in 1862, Value of real estate....... ‘On the 7th instant, the mereary at Detroit was down degrees below zero, mis Our Paris Correspondence, Our Houston Correspondence. “Panis, Dee. 26, 1868. Hovsrom, (Texas,) Deo, 21, 1853. Ine Easiern War—What People Say of lt—Kffot of Wwe \ Passage of the Pacific Railroad Bill by the Legislatwre—The Action of England and Brance—Miiiary Preparations | Southern Route Adopted-—Comparison with the Benion Lin and Resources of the Emperor—Opinions of te Presi ~The Ports of Gatweton and San DiegomTerms of the Addition to the Fleet—The Turkish Troops—German Eini- Teaan Contract, £o, Theatricals. The great Pacific Railroad bill passed the House of Rep- I will now draw your attention 1o matters of gravs | resentatives of this State, on Saturday last, by a vote of interest, for the Eastern question is daily assumiug & | seventy one to thirteen. It had previously passed the phase which leaves the “‘conference”’ far in arrear, be- | Senate by avote of twenty-two to tou, and is comee” sides Vienna notes, as valueless as the paper on which | quently completed, they are written. Every fiesh account of the massacre, I rend you scopy of the bill, that you may see how as it is now called, at Sinope, adds fuel to the already | resolutely and effectively the Texans are ‘Working to s¢- blazing flame of public opinion in France. fhe Turkish | eure for their State the Pacific Railroad, Itis well under, vessels were far weaker, it appears, in cannon, than tie | stood that this bill meets the entire approbation of Gen, Russian account represeated; and tales are told of waa- | Rusk, our able and indefatigable Senator, who has made ton destruction of thegtown and ramparts, and of barbs. | himself personally familiar with almost every rod of rian cruelty, that have exeited all the blood of ths | grourd between the Sabine river and San Diego on the Frenchman. In every café, salon, passage, on ths Boule- | Pacific, and knows whereof he may affirm in this respect varda, the Bourse, in the arcades of the Rae Rivoli, yon | im the Senate of the United States, Gen. Rusk has re hear nothisg but murmurs deep and loud at such dantard | eently completed « tour of recomnoissance as far west as truokling to the Czar. For six months, it is saii, hive | the Peoos, where he was met by Judge Ankrim and his ‘we been negotiating, every: hour of whieh he has been | party from El Paso, who were on @ similar tour; eo that soting. Of what good, if it could be accomplished, is ii | what Gen. Rusk may state in the Senate, in regard to the to establish in Turkey ® quadruple protectorate for the | ‘Southern route’”’ for the Pacific Railroad, (in reference benefit of the Christians—a protectorate that pre-sap- | to its intrinsic advantages, without regard to comparative poses eternal harmony between these Powers—that for- | advantages) ought to be received, aa it doubtless will be gots that Russia may at any moment resume and enforce | as ascertained fact. When comparative advantages, as’ her present audacious plan of action? for instance, between this route and Col. Benton’s snows Better far, it is said, rise up like men, and fali on this | buried, double-Switzerland route, come to be made, colossal power, and wring from her gripe what Sweden, | the Texas route for the grand chain of railroad between Persia, Poland, and Tur! have already lost, Millions | the Atlanticand Pacific will be able to exhibit claims bet arets Oe moral aid which the countenance of France whose superiority, in the matters of distance, grade, England would to a om off ~ Thoms, dad fall ke. avalanche on thelt oppressor” | iavorableness of climate, wealth of éountry traversed, and productiveness, which will leave ‘There is now no doubt, however, that both the Powers have felt that the time for concession has passed awny. | ject fluttering om the summit of the Rocky Moua- The combined fleet has positively entered the Hiss: | tains, Colonel Fremont may again lose two-thirds of Sea, with orders to aweep away into Sebastorol any | bis men in exploring the desert wilds north of 36 Russian war craft that may show its fase, while tae Torks of iatitade, but no railroad men are to have fall freedom of the sea. Call this what you ‘au probably be found who will wil, it is war; amd the day on which M. Kisselif, tue Rus- | senses by attempt to follow his explorations with a sian Ambassador, will cemand his passports i» son. | raiload. It is, rao jor lly, just as absurd to attempt ,to sidered ‘here a mere matter of travelling couveuience. Napo- | build Celomel ton's voad, as it would be toat- leon has at last broke through the marble of !iis reserve, ‘and it has been known for some days past that the pars graph extracted from Independence Belye, which sppears 1e Patrie of to day. was todo #0 ‘The Patric says :—" tempt to build @ railroad from north to south, ‘through the Swiss Cantons; and a recent letter of Col. Benton, touching the unfortunate Gunnison’s # party, makes this plain, You have published the letter, (in which Col. Benton says that a portion of his route is equal to two Switserlands,) and your readers will remem- ber it. The stalworth jel never said a truer thing. To construct « railroad siccues the upper Sierra Nevada, cp the line he wishes, would be just about like construct- ing a road through the everlasting glaciers of Mont Blanc, and then back again by another route, If Col. Benton persuade the American Congress to patronize his pian sod bis reute for the great Pacific Railroad,, against the lain, easy, usobstrndeed, cheap route through Texas, on the parallel of 32 deg, then Col. Benton may xe the prime magician of theage, and the American Con- | gress may be set down as the easiest gulled association of | § 8 o | fotelligent gentlemen in the world, | _ Your readers may think I write thus because Iam — | Texan. Well, Ido, I write thus because, as a Texan, I | belteve I know how superior our route for the Pacific rail- Every one I meet with considers the whole of ‘bia para. roa’ ia over all others, and because I know, also, all gph, from the peculiar character of the journal, as | about the rcheme of Col. Benton, and how preposterous official, And it is uppored that the lengisy cabinet | iv is to attempt to force a great national railroad through councils lately held in kngland have had qui'e a5 much | a country where snow and ice must obstruct the running to do with this as the finding an occupaat for the seat of | of trains for two or three months in the ear, when it cam the Home Office, | be casier, better, cheaper, and quicker (i quicker) con- The Vauban steamer, at Tonlon, bas sen ordsred | structed through country where neither snow nor ice to joim the ccubined fleet, The Miaister of War bas | can interrupt the running of trains for a aingle @ay in the planned forty-two divisicns, giving an eflsctive force yer, aud where the egricultural and mineral wealth of the French arty of six hundred thousand man, A corps | the laud is absolutely wonderfal. Do we not know of the @armecis to be ready for the relief of Turkey, 1 | absolute sterility of thousands of miles of Col. Benton’s peror says, in allears, “Let the people of Frauce havo | propored route? Do we not know how absolutely it is confidence in the man she has three times eolomaly | covered up, for thousands of miles, by snow? Do we in trasted with her honor If there have bean divisions et | Texas not know all about the country north of the thirty- Constantinople there shail be no more.” Frenchmen | sixth degree of north latitude, from St. Louis to the bes pees think that the cogitations of Aborde Buol, | Pacific, quite as well as Col, Benton knows it; and a We have never doubted that French government, which has taken into its asuds the affairs of the Levant the cause of humanity and violated treaties, would adopt, at the proper mc decision worthy of itself and of Franos. The pf Sinope, @ precedent for which can ouly be fc history of the pages of the lower empire, throughout all Kurepe an immense and ail tion. | it creates for civilized nations © new»: new duties. The Indepmdence Belge publisn Bew attitude of France, an article which, we vinced, will be received with a lively nentimen: 0 faction, ‘The goverament of the Linperor of ule Fre ifmy information is correct, ‘has placed the ae before the British Cabinet in terms of such prec that every kind of evasion, every kind of middie so: has now become imporsible.’”? we set down jeaselrode are done with, and that the do not the people of this Union and their re- basta hp Ree nbicoge bar pps is really dra’ | presentatives {in Congress know it too? I rather There ia a crispness about his movstache as he ink #0. Colonel Berton is fooling nobody by his the fact, and a toss of the head like that’of h andil when Frenchmen spoke of Marecgo and Austerii It is curious, too, to remaik, that Auntriaa pro tween Odesia and Cronstadt are warned off, and mighty duigeop, payment has beea demacdel Tarkish government by thors packets for ths cony. of troops aud warlike stores; but tne Oltom: ent representations of the impenetrable and pr route of his railroad to Cal gon. Nota bit of it. The people of ow | ae well as Colonel Beaton does about his route, and laugh | atit asa scheme to be accomplishetl not less than a hun ace | dred years hence, when ice and suow shall ha govern | more manageable. .To build # railroad to California and ment bas nore blows st command than piastces just m¢ | Oregon, om Colonel Benton’s plan and route, aow, would this momeat. teed be the hearty manger in which | be truly like building @ railroad through a couple of volunteers pour in, the Turks contrive to keep up ua | Switzerlanda, army of fie hundred thou:and men. It ia, indesd, state: Hut (need not trouble you with these comparisons, by persous whose authority would be most powerful | vor with apy comperisons, I think you will agree with could I venture to mention their names, that when | me that the action of the Legislature of Texas, the result brougbt into the field, fairly into stwnd up fighs, the Ot | of which I send you, in likely to be conclusive’ as regarn toman army must giv yy; that in ite present state of | the Pacific Railroad. This action, I believe you will ad transition from wild ipline to European tactica the | mit, eveures the Pacific Railroad ‘to Texas, The advan old stuff has evaporated; not that they t still & | {ages of grade, of climate, of almost inflaite productive- brave race, but that combined movements in the hour of | ness ofsvil, mineral and agiicultural, over which the road danger will puzzle and confound them; that it ia con- | will pase, and of cheapaess of construction, must seeure trary to every principle and habit of their life; and that | the ret counection of th tic with the Pacific ocean yy themselves at bottom, except in entreuchments, | through Ie The first railroad that connects the have lftle confidence in them. Their artillery practios | waters of these oceans will be that which reaches from all aliew to be superb. San Diego. on the Pacific, te Galveston, on the Atlantic, ‘The manufactory of arms at Liege an¢ St Etisane is | or Guif ot Mextoo The distance between Galveston and stated to be enormously increasing. Sau Diego is tesa than thirteen hundred miles, and Gal- ‘Tho emigration of Grrmans to the United States must | veston is the beat shipping and trans ship,ing port in de very great, if we may judge from the fact of 650 of | Terax Such starting points an these are deoisive. Trade them, who a few Cays ago were even walking down ths Boulevards on the road to Hav. There sane Brulovard Will always seek its beat and cheapest outiets and inlets, 1.6 Galveston aad Sao D ego will always furnish these for are cow offering a spectacle which could bs found in no | the ‘tomease East Indies. ofuer city in the whole world but Paris. From the end | You will atonce perceive what immense privi ees are of the Faubourg &t Antoine up to the tarmtoatin of tue | practed to the company who may be successful in opn Boulevard de la Madeleine, a broad carriage wa» ite long length at an angle of some ‘orty.tive dog oes Med om each sit a © by wapperted by magicins, containing everything that eklifal artand nicest combi, sting and irectivg with the Governcr of Texas for the building of this road; aod you will also eee what guarantees (reason: able gharantees) Texas exacts from those who obtain the covtract. The contrac’ must place three hundred thou- pation ean produce to witch the traveller's syn, sre | rend dollars in the trearury of this St being built, on the splendid pave of avphalte ampli | their buidleg at least fifty miles of the roai in elg: mn bareques, with a slanting roof, to shoot th ron ths, is just and ressovable, The company ily pestorm this condition ought not to rt ‘he condi ton is reasonable and just on the part of and vot unreasonable ani ur jaat to contractors Te: ta toe roadjbuilt, and as speeti y as possivle, and to secure this she,bas made the mont liberal and magnificent provisions. She has made them ia good faith, @d will exact good faith from those who wish to hemselves of her liberality. If such men as Erastos Gorning Mr. McAlpine, Mr. n, Gen, Clark, or Mr. Forbes of Boston, should propore for this great con. tract.I have but small doubt that they would be farorabl: have the light the generation that is growing up. I will aot, how ever, anticipate, but reserve for ity proper day, camsly, the jour dev'an, the history of its more than Eastern treasures. The Theatre Francaise cannot accept any further pro, jowals from M, Dumas in the way of dramatic repraventa- ona, and so that celebrated author has writien a letter to a friend in New York, in which he ssys:—‘' Find for me on the borders of the St. Lawrence, the Hudson, the Delaware, ¢r the Ohio, @ corner where, surrounded by | received by Gov, Pease, of Texas. He, in common witl chosen frieais, I may spend my Ist days, and dir under | bir wide constituency, only asks for the building of tae the sun of liberty.” road, and I think he would be glad A Re the eontract The title of Donizetti’s posthumeus opera, about to be | to the class of gentl+men I have named. Thy are gen given at the Theatre Lyrique, is “Elizabeth, on is Fille du Proserit.” The libretto is from the pen of MM. de Leaven and Bronswicke. tlemen not as yet connected with the great New York Pacific Railroad Company, # poition of whom are now Lore in the vain hope that the legislation of Texas may be shap:d #0 as to recognise them. Nothing of the kind willbe done. Tne orly Pacific Railroad bill that Texes contemplates is parsed, and no com pany nor olique ix fvored by it; nor can any legislation favoring any com. pany oc clique be obtained, ‘The field is left open Mem of character and iofluence an¢ capital wiil receive this contract No others oan, because the Texas Legislature is hor eet and in earnest, and has not paseed this bill to beneiit mere speculators. J News from Buenos Ayres. We have received our files of Baenos Ayres journals, dated to the 9th of November. The news is not of much importance, The Argentine Packet of the 28th of October. asyn, tn ita monthly trade and political retrorpsot—' We are now reaping the fruits of the derangement oocavioned by the late blockade. The few arrivals that have deen daring the past mon:ha, are a mere dropin the bucket, acc | it is needless to expect any thing approaabing au averse Gespatch till the supplies are made up by fresh arrivals The demand for this capital and Letilde od is decidediy good, and the firrt cargoes that arrive may reckon on » quick apd advantagecus market. Important reforms in the import and export tariff are pending in the Chamber | i's *! nieresting Indian news, It is dated Fort Bel- of Representatives; but in the actual state of the import | k*p. Brazos, Dee. 5, 1858, and is written by ‘Jom Shaw’? market we believe they have only # very sesondary pact | © Gen. Thomes J. Rask:— Interesting from Texas. We learn from the Austio State Times that Mr. T. Batler | King has consented to deliver an address on the subject of railroncs, {n compliance with ® written request from « lerge bomber of the citizens of Austin. ‘The pame paper pub ishes the fol owing letter, contain: im the apparent callners alluded to, The fra of GevkratL—I reached \ his place in good healty om Satur- Jaw. presented by the. Isto Provisional Covers, | “ay, te 3: inet. About thirty mlles trom Fort Belkasp ment,” now Y discussion, “end likely to, oe | Liat John Connor, who informed me that four Keechies tanctioned,” involve. important’ mocifloations io. fa. | #tole Forsex from the oeighborhoed of Fort Gates; the horses near Fort arbuckle, bat had not foros enough with him to retake them; they are now near the Wichita ina, Wicbitas told John Connor that the northern Ca mauches, (Yamparekas,) atele the Jobe believer it, and] do alse, siwce my arrival here, my brother, Bill Shaw, informs me thet Yellow Wolf was killed by some Lipans. The Lipans stole some horses from the Uamanckes, who fol Jowsd and overteck them, .ut not be'ng strong enough to charge upon the Lipsns, were only able to recover and | drive onck their horses. The Lipana them. and six silver rlals per facega. The new mivistry hes aot ye. | 10 their pursuit came upon Yellow Wolf's camp and killed vnced any definite programme of policy; but from | Dim. Ketempse raised « party and puraued the Lipans, m porition, the known : haracter of its members, sai | but we bave cot heard of the result deference due to public opinion, we are en'lilod | infer tbat it will be oe of peace and coucilietion, se our my end reform, impartial justice aucliberty of as and thr community at large, we are voaviaos!, ia pre pared to accept aad appreciate suck ® ayxtemn Lipase sre better werciors than the former,aad moze On extending our view to the national orgsnirati ipieliigew. With the ald of the Tonsabusa, and some there to 8 dark and mysterinas veil, vat foroid ober small tibos, who are inimisal tothe Usmenches, tpeculate with the -awe ctriaiaty © compiace: r | te Lipa may make head agatuat them. theve mOMtEDANEDLEN or both e flectiog, 12 Ta removal of the troooa from our fr ntier will ope. Cf Buen0a Ayres have been met with little clae, #0 rate irjurtoualy, by re-arding the extension of che set le © myetnee, than atudied neglect an) chi visiain. a>) tae | Otel thet direction apd by masing the Indisos bolder tieciton of the first comatitu'ionsl Prasttent, (ret or cue | “Md wore dating tn th tr depredations Wh Of the euMuieg Nov moer, is ccovabiy oe tine The, Viet tm ult., has the follow tear an insuperable barrier tu tha patrini c vis oa 3 t Germans of this plese wise and go do’ all parties aad Kec fous of th ieee formed & Kosisty, the objest cf which is to extend OMMa, the second Of the new. Hae spieiacen To unf rtunate and indigent emigrants, and to the destitute of their own country psople who may hap- ide in thia vicinity. They have ratsed by imdi- | donations, from its members, an amount of fands fufficient to sfford relief in urgent cases; aad will hold Mratbly meetings in purduacce of the objects of the arrooiation. ‘The Indianola Bulletin, of the 28th ult , referring te re- ports in some of the papers of the faterior, that the | cholera was killizg off the ooas’ people rapidly, says :— The fac | the whois report is @ sheer fabrication. We vor of general commeros; end are expected to oome operation on the Ist of January, 1854 To appreci neral bearing of the measure, suffice it to aay, tha tutles of thirty five, forty, and Aity per osut ars reduord to twenty five as the maximum; whilst the hibition of from eighty to ‘ninety articl fiimay pretext of protection to articles of howe p duction, is entircly done away with. Under the new I wheat, four and Indien oorm will be admisaidie st all | times,'the first paying a fixed duty of one silver dullar | per ‘favega,”’ equivalent to about four Winchester buch els; the seoond one silver dollar per owt ; wud the tuin | In publishing thie letter, the Stat: Times remarks : ~ | From his it appears there ig darger of 4. Ul further hos- jit. beoween thase trides, The Camanches ere top uineroce for the Lipsns Major Neighbors saya the tae ive November 6 ine Packet, under the head of * Hopeful syinp “A contract has been cnasludes { the ay ap with gas. A prop sition for supply ivg water is now before the Chamber of Represents rhe site of & 1 ew custom houre has heen decide | The Decessity of & mole and a railroad to tat Bors ir unani mously aémisted. As aspecimen of the local iin pro mente, ip the first three ands half months of poses, thin ie not emies.”” have heard of buttwo deaths ‘rem cholera on this bay The British Packel, of October 29, says:~ al: since August, 1852 »eventeen months ago, and they wre news of intorect Is the mudden death of Gener: Juaa | PerH0us landing from vessela with the disease, Lastend Antonio Lavalleje, soting Prevideat. of Montevideo, and | Of fifteen deaths having ooourred at Lavacca, we to not the leader of the thirty three devoted patriots who | believe there has been @ oase in that plaos, The report hoisted the standard of revolt im 1825, whi.hevwntuaily | SY have grown out of the late cases of yellow fever resulted in the independence of the Oriental State of tue thers, rome three weeks ago, but there is no trath published. me paptr has the following paragrap! st the mouth of Peach creek. In the year 1864 there willbe two psor of the sum county, wes killed a few dsys since by a M and two of the moon, | Partioclare not given, The deceased, we unders partially eclipsed on the 12th of | considered @ troublesome citizen. beginning at 10h. 62m, A. M., consequently iavisi- | The people of Caldwell eounty have formed an Agricul- = tural Society under the State Asrociatioa There will be an anoular eclipse of the ran on the 26h FROM THE RIO GRANDE. of May, visible as follows:—Beginning at 4h. 10m ; great. By the arrival of schooner Sea Dri Galveston, from ent ol tion 4h 26m. fnd, 6h. im. PM Bec w: ville, briegtog a mamber of gore, witnesses on Uroguay.”” Eclipses of the Year. Talipoo ees 62 minutes, from vertex to the right. begins 147 the part of the government io the filibuster trials, whieh Digits eclipsed 1014 om the northern limb, The line of were to commence in the United States District Court in central Senular eclipse through « portion of Galveston on the lat inat., and others, the News has in- the northern part of the United States, and southern part teliigenos to the 25th ult., as follows: — of British America. ie will be the largest eclipte visi- Tre yel.ow fever bad not abated at Browneyille or Ma'a- mores, a1 we were before informed. About fifteen deaths are reported éaily in those elties. There in & rumor current in Brownsville that orders had ble in the United States until the year 1900, when the = will be totally oclipsed, the centre paswing ovar A eclipse of the moon will oecur on the ith of been received from the government suspendingjthe build- November, at 4h. 1lm. P, M.; iavisible. The moou will ing of the pri om the Rio Grance, until rise with a sbade on ita northern limb. the serait of tiations now going on between the The sup be totally eelipsed om the 20th of Noven- | American aad governments for the purchase of ber, the middle at Sn. 14m, A, M., invisible, | the six States of the Bierra Madre. abould be definitely wen pert Ot nee Reicha et Fas aly tides of sur fan nove bs tho Doms of tha vebiener 0 on! me owas. ee ' tar om Pade Island, with the plot ea board. Our Boston Correspondence, Bosron, Jan. 7, 1854. Meeting of the Leguslature—Delay wm the Organs ization—Boston Influences-—Constitutional Re- forms—The Hoosac Twnnel—Restoration of the Gallows—Mr, Parker's Will-Ad New Whig Candidate—A New Union Candidate— New Sta+ tion House~Theatrical—Jullien’s Concerts—The Streets—Murder Trial, §c., &¢- Our Legislature met on the 4th, and the officer chosen in the two branches were those I named sometime since as most likely to succeed: Mr. Cook a8 President of the Senate, and Mr. Lord as Speaker of the House. Everything, almost, goes to Bostom and ite neighborhood—-Mr. Cook being of Boston, ag also is Mr. Calhoun, (but, then, he is entitled to the Place from the suavity of his manners,) who wag elected Clerk of the Senate; and Mr. Lord is of Salem, a mere suburb of Boston, one of ite fast bowrgs, #0 to speak. Mr. Stevens, who Is Sergeant: at Arms, is also of Boston; and the only exception to the remark, thus far, is in the case of the Clerk of the House, Mr. Stowe, of Springfield; and his aa< sistant, it is understood, is to be from Bostom, and bear the image and superscription of the metropd: litan Cwsar “endorsed” full upon his back. Eve the Chaplains are of the same interest, and there ig but little_left for rural whiggery, certainly nothing 80 green as itself. The Legislature has been somewhat longer thay ugual in organizing, in consequence of the commit. tee appointed to count the votes for Senator hay« ing discovered that Mr. Sabin, the second coalition candidate in Berkshire, was legally entitled to g place in the Senate. The majority of the commit. tee having unadvisedly admitted that which would give to Mr. Sabin his seat, has ever since been en: gaged in endeavoring to escape from the consequencg of its admission. The subject of amending the State constitution was brought before the House of Representatives om the very first day of tue session, by Col. Thompson, of Boston. He was in as much sary as _the Hon. Peleg Peashell’s nephew, embalmed in Pau! ri story, who commenced a speech on - iblicg of Greece and Rome,” whea he took hif’seat in Com< gress,before the S,,eaker bad been chosen. This sub- ject, however, is to be the first question of the seg- gion, and I suppose the gallant Colonel wished ta have it “knocked down’’ as soon as possible. Unless the coals have hed Se agen te tana out” of thew they will give the whigsa great of trouble bis potat. To do anything in the way of constita, | reform the whigs must be able ta gecure two’ sof the House of Representatives; gud this they cannot do without securing a dozem democratic ‘or free soil votes, even if we enppore themselves to be all united on the matier, wi ig far from being the case. As two legislatures in suc< cession must adopt constitutional amendments, it ig pretty well understood here that the whig move- ment is a mere cheat and sham, and that, if amend- ments should be this year adopted, they would be thrown out next winter. Some of the moat cte~ ble and influentia! whixs in the State—Judge Wash- burn, who will be our governor in a few days, is the chief of the number—are opposed to any change being made i. constitation; and though they ma} feel themsely: ied upon not to make any ” cular display of couservatism just now, they be tound adverse to “ reform’? when the crisis shall come. The Hoosac Tunnel bore has also been brought thus early before the House, but has been tabled for the present. The rum law repeal has notas yet been taken up, but it wil! not be allowed to wait long foraction. Tne rummiesare confident of repeal had. So they were a year ago, but were a little dis- appointed, as they may be again. A counting of heads is said to have sown & majority of twenty- nine in favor of repeal, so far as the opinions of m« presentatives on the subject are known; but as there are mere than fifty meiubers whose opinions are un- known, it would be hazardous to depend upon and calculation. The question will be decided, not wit Teference to its own merits, but to the effect of action on Par politics. In consequence of the prospect of of the State’s credit oeing granted in aid of tun- nel project, Vermont Central Rai!road stock has ex- perienced a large rise. Governor ()\fford bas signed the death warrant of Clough, the burglar avd murderer, and so has dis- pelled the opinion that the gallows had been infor- Tally, but not the less effsetually, abolished in Massa: chusetts. Atthe session of 1452 the opponents of capital punishment in the Legislature found that they could not carry their point straight out, and s@ they compromised the matter, adopting the Maine lan, by which a criminal has a year t> live after tate sentenced. As no pemion hed been hong in Maine under such a law, it was, rather illogically, as the event has proved, inferred that it would oper- ate in the same way here. Had the coalition kept in power perhaps such would have deen the re- sult; but Governor Clifford is a “ gallows” sort of a man, and believes, with Wa kiag. Stewart, that that instrument is the emblem of sivilization, if not civill- zation itself. He nas had an itching to sign a death- warrant ever since he has been our Governor, just ag boys are troubled with a desire to “‘ stick a sl Nod and the case of Wen being one of a rather hard kind he has availed himself of the opportanity with ap alacrity that is almost gleeful. He might be drawn now, as Moore drew George IV., with ————"‘ Tea and toa t, Death warrants. anc the Boston Post,” the difference being only of a word. Clongh came on to Massachusetts irom New York, a “ professional burglar,” and committed murder in course of an in- effectual attempt to fet away from those who had arrested him. After his condemnation his conduct was not of the most exemp character. In or out, he was alike the reverse of s model man, and, as he was not well behaved here, the Governor and Council came to the conclusion that he should be sent else- where, preparatory to which he should be “ hung up to dry,” riding to elsewhere on what Mr. Dammie Dunnacre elegant)y calls “ a ‘orse foaled of a acorn.” Yet one cannot fail to ve strack with the antique re- mark, that he who is not fit to live is still Jess fit ta die. It fis a rather odd way that we have in this world, that of sending a man to heaven when we fing or believe him to ve good for nothing on earth. Gov. Clifford bas had a legacy from his grandfather in-law, the late Mr. Parker of New Bedford. The amount is said to be $25,000, a ve -y comfortable sum when one can’t get a lar are His Excellency married for his second wife, Miss Allen, daughter of W. U. Allen, Eeq., of New Bedtord, a very accomplished woman, and highly esteemed. Mrs. Clifford Inherits almost as much more. Mr. Parker after leaving a few lega- cies, among which was that to Gov. Clifford, left property in equal proportions to his wife and eight children. Mrs. Clifford ie one of the six children of one of Mr. Parker’s daughters, and has one-sixth of one-ninth of her grandfather's whole property, amounting to certainly not less than $20,000. Her mogher is dead, and the ninth that would have been that lady’s portion is divided among her six children, Mr. Allen has & handsome annuity settled on him. Mr. Parker's total property is yalned at $1,200,000, and he was the richest man in,that part of the State, where he had so long been the I ig spirit of the business world. The Air-Line Railroad Company have purchased tw2 wharves at the foot af Summer street, and fill up the space between them, with the intention of erecting on the land thas made a large and heautifal station house. This station will be nearer to the centre of Bcston than any other. There is to be com: munication by # bridge with South Boston. The Air- Line will, it 1s supposed, be completed soon. Mr. Forrest snd Mc Anderson have both been drawing good h. uses, the former at the National,and the latter at the Howard. Mr. Anderson hag n weil supported by Miss Morant. Ovinions differ as to the merits of the two gentlemen as tragedians; bat Mr. Forrest has so long been an estavlished favorite here that avything like rivalry is quite out of the question. Theu he has his peculiar round of “pa- tent’ characters, with which there can be no compe tition even. Mr. Forrest will appear as Damon next Monday evening. Salien is a tonishing those who attend his com certs; but the half dollar of the house ia much better filled than the dollar part. Lovers of music don’t love money any the leas. The condition # our streets is awful, though the cold weather that set in last night bas afforded an Opportunity to make ‘them feomewhat more passs- ble, by levelling down the hills of snow and ice, and filling up_ the valless. -The warmth of the weather from fief to Friday night com- sere bestroyed the sleighing in almost every irection, and the snow has bea jy No nearly as rapidly as it eame. The ground is bare in many places ih the vicinity of the city. We ought to be thankful for the oecurrence of ‘melting days,” fer if there had come rain we should have been swept from the face of the earth. Another warm spell wowd be the means, not improbably, of saving » ap deal of Broperty, t th much cannot be said in favor of such weather on the score of health. The Supreme Court has been engaged since Tues- day in the trial of David Dempster, a Scotchman, charged with having murdered his wife, an Faglish- woman, in this city, on the 10th of last May. He ap- pears to have maltreated her in the most brutal manner, and systimatically so, until she for which disap ce the husband endeavored to account in various eee, ways. Her bs was found on the shore at Bast , on the 1 of May, with abundant marks on it of eome to her death from violence. a General, abnounced, game his ment, his intention ° dase his There fa a Teport thes Governor ifford ia to retarn 40 it, AvaoMa.